love-in-a-mist

• “And what better place to fall dazed than love-in-a-mist?”

  The WritingYA Weblog: We Interrupt This Packing To Say: POETRY FRIDAY

• “At large in the unsustaining air, flew clear over the lawn across the breadth of the garden and fell, Icarian, dazed, among hollyhocks, snapdragons, love-in-a-mist, and stood up uninjured, ready to swing and fly over and over.”

  The WritingYA Weblog: We Interrupt This Packing To Say: POETRY FRIDAY

• “The love-in-a-mist however is all over buds and I'm very excited every morning, hoping that one of them will have finally opened.”

  July 15th, 2006

• “I have lots of nigella love-in-a-mist growing in my garden, and keep thinking I should harvest it, but the seed pods look so pretty as is, and besides it's so easy to just buy it from the indian store.”

  Mistress of Spices, finally

• “Nigella The small, black, angular seed of Nigella sativa, a close Eurasian relative of the common ornamental plant love-in-a-mist, tastes like a milder, more complex version of thyme or oregano, with a hint of caraway.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “I have planted bulbs of a Mentone creeper, love-in-a-mist, heather, sweet peas and canna seeds.”

  Three Years in Tristan da Cunha

• “It was a long walk up to the Schatz Alp; there were paths where the pine-trees met overhead, garlanded with wreaths of snow, and the spaces between the wreaths were as blue as love-in-a-mist, an old-fashioned flower that grows in English gardens.”

  The Dark Tower

• “There are few blue flowers, and most of them are small and fragile, like love-in-a-mist and speedwell.”

  The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

• “Then an idea struck her, so glorious, that she put the uprooted love-in-a-mist in the weed-basket, instead of planting it again, and went quickly indoors, up to the attics, and from there popped -- really popped, so tight was the fit -- through a trap-door on to the roof.”

  Miss Mapp

• “I was once talking to a lady who had just come over from China, and who wore a dress of soft figured silk of the most perfect love-in-a-mist colour-shade which I had ever seen, even in turning over the wonder-drawers at Liberty's.”

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

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